Questions of free speech offer no simple answers, but it’s clear that this is a watershed moment in comedy If we don’t defend free speech, we live in tyranny. That’s the tenor of the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMIt’s a form of comedy that has fallen out of favour with TV, but a trio of fun acts are keeping the sketch flame alive One of the pleasures of the fringe is checking in with standups as th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA gang of New Zealand comics and their very special guests become Elvis impersonators, hobbits and chimney sweeps in a fun fringe night Great was the excitement…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMischief Theatre are up to their old tricks as silly slapstick meets telepathy in a send-up of stage mentalism Stage mentalism – the world of Derren Brown and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMMonkey Barrel @ The Hive, EdinburghThe endearing comic’s Edinburgh debut is a riotously inventive show that blurs notions of race, gender and disability You could call Lara Ricote’s Edi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMUnderbelly, George Square, EdinburghIn her show All Change Please it’s marriage, not politics, that’s at the heart of the Mash Report satirist’s finest jokes Rachel Parris always knew …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAdam Meggido’s play finds the teenage Johnson starring in Shakespeare’s tragedy and gives a taste of his future leadership Out of his depth as a tragedy unf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMAssembly George Square, EdinburghDebut show directed by Jordan Brookes sees Will Rowland and Eddy Hare deliver a familiar odd-couple turn with freshness “The UK’s lowest energy double ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMPleasance Dome, EdinburghBrokentalkers theatre company and feminist comic Adrienne Truscott joyfully burlesque the ugliness of machismo in art and in life The great male artist may soon be o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMStand New Town theatre, EdinburghMaking her fringe standup debut after blazing a trail through modelling and activism, Olumide has some promising material but it fails to come together Fashi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her show The Woman’s Hour, the viral comedy star offers caricatures of burbling backbenchers and a woke-bashing TV host In the darkness of our political mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMMonkey Barrel, EdinburghWith cartoonish flair, the likable comic – one half of sketch duo The Delightful Sausage – revels in the repeated indignity of being ditched for someone else The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMThe former PM’s one-off onstage chat with standup Matt Forde belied his dour image. If only he’d shown more of this side of himself to the electorate Where is the comedy, Matt Forde, in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMAssembly Rooms, EdinburghWith Lap of Shame, the comic delivers a set of breathtakingly rude jokes and thought-provoking ghastliness A friend of Frankie Boyle’s, he tells us, stopped watchi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Childhood friends and LOL Word affiliates Rachel WD and Ruby Clyde leave no assumption unturned with their deft wit and breezy musical interplay A venerable tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMStand Comedy Club, EdinburghThe standup delivers a compelling show that reflects on his Strictly Come Dancing notoriety and harsh childhood experiences Many may struggle to sympathise – f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSikisa Bostwick-Barnes’s ebullience carries her through a debut solo show that’s punctuated with dance breaks You can see why Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes themed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMUnderbelly Bristo Square, EdinburghMilo McCabe’s matinee-idol character initially feels at odds with his material, but it’s hard not to be won over by his enthusiasm Milo McCabe performe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghReich’s flouncing, self-obsessed comedy is a brittle skewering of irony and anxiety – and a must-see One of countless acts this fringe whose Covid-delayed d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMIn his Edinburgh fringe show Flying High the impressionist wants to convey the warmth and affection of the comic and Blankety Blank host Who knew, growing up in the 70s and 80s, that we were…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMCanal Cafe theatre, LondonThis high-energy hour of songs and sketches includes a Conservative leadership medley from The Greatest Showman and Boris Johnson’s Jailhouse Rock In the 43 years…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMUnderbelly festival, LondonThe acrobatic feats of Jarred Dewey go some way to redeem a show that’s way too high on cliches and exposed buttocks Enough buttock already! It’s not a sentime…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSoho theatre, LondonArmed with cherry tomatoes, paper boats and a leaf-blower, Julia Masli, Viggo Venn and Sami Abu Wardeh brought the London clown festival to an uproarious close ‘I hate …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMOxford PlayhouseThere are some low-wattage anecdotes in this set but the standup delivers gags about farting and haemorrhoids with an undeniable vitality There are seven signs of ageing, acc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMPhil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance 20 great Ed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMSoho theatre, LondonAt a crisis point for his country, Kielty’s ‘module on borders’ is warm and engaging, though his even-handedness dims some of the laughter “A comedian shouldn’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMStandup Joe Lycett has revealed that he was reported to police for one of his routines. From Sacha Baron Cohen to Jo Brand, our writer looks at what happens when laughter and the law collide…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMConway Hall, LondonMcGlade pours his heart and soul into the show but his picture of a golden age of working-class racial harmony is a stretch When Soho theatre declined to re-book Chris McG…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMSoho theatre, LondonThe comedian’s troubled relationship with his ‘alpha dad’ is under scrutiny in this enjoyable show of (mostly) new material There’s a choice joke, midway through…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMLeicester Square theatre, LondonEngaging, blokey, old-school standup about domesticity, parenthood and the frustrations of modern life is mixed with material specific to the scouse joker’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSoho theatre, LondonMalign males on the dating scene are the focus of this heartfelt set, with keep-fit fans, activists and men who claim to be feminists also under the microscope Hot on the…
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